Wednesday, December 28, 2011

First it Was the Swedish Butter Smugglers Now Black Market EU Eggs Could Land in England

A couple weeks ago, during the height of Norway's butter crisis, entrepreneurs from Sweden and Russia were getting the golden goodness across NATO's front lines. A quick look at blocket.se shows the number of ads by smör-runners (smør in Norwegian) has dropped off perhaps because they are chasing the next hot market.
From EU Referendum:

The picture above is no more in the UK. More than 80 million battery hen
spaces have been upgraded as a result of EU law. Almost all British egg
producers will be compliant with the law that comes into force on 1
January. Others are not.

Spain, France, Poland, amongst others – eight in total, including
Belgium - are not ready, and will continue producing eggs from battery
cages, despite having had 13 years to prepare for the new law, one which
introduces standards the British would have adopted, with or without
the EU.

This, says the Independent,
has led to fears that cheaper, illegal eggs from the Continent will
flood into UK wholesalers, manufacturers and caterers – undercutting
British egg producers, who say they feel "let down" by the Government's
refusal to unilaterally ban eggs from non-compliant EU states....MORE